Everything and everyone is connected. Everything in creation serves a purpose. He learned this early on. Knows it, deep down in what some would call his soul. Life springs from love or maybe something less. Death can be a curse or a blessing. People come into your life for no reason, then leave and often take with them your sole reason for living. He knows the intimate transcendental scheme of beginnings and endings. Yet, when the universe has its way with him again; tossing his hope and spirit against the rocks to wreck him once more, he is still surprised.